A grave of an Ancient Thracian noblewoman, whose corpse was ritually dismembered before her burial, has been discovered during excavations near the town of Benkovski in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains in Southern Bulgaria.

The archaeologists working on the rescue excavations on the projected route of the Hemus Highway in Northeast Bulgaria have found homes from the Bronze Age as well as a medieval settlement from the period of the First Bulgarian Empire.

An Ancient Thracian bronze artifact in the shape of a stork’s head described as “the oldest children’s toy in Europe” has been identified by Bulgarian archaeologists among archaeological items found by local residents in the area of the southern town…